Advanced though our current digital age may be, and replete with all kinds of wonderful benefits denied to people past (benefits I love and use frequently), you can’t help feeling that we’ve also lost something in this rush to progress – a sense of magic and wonder, that feeling that there is something inexplicable just beyond the edges of what we know and see.
I get the feeling that Northern California-based artist, Matt Gaser, who has worked on the Clone Wars TV show and is also active in movies and gaming, knows just what I’m talking about.
His gloriously evocative images of worlds far removed from our own are a joy to behold, a reminder that there is magic where we don’t see it, and I love the way Gizmodo talks about his utterly-unique magically-colourful, richly-imaginative landscapes:
“… his original works imagine science fiction and fantasy worlds deeply connected to nature. Bright, autumn colours dominate his imagination while keeping a distinct genre, almost steampunk, aesthetic. These are sci-fi worlds that feel warm, but also ancient and lived in. They just feel nice.
“Though the creatures and beings in these works feel alien, you still just kind of want to get cozy in there and take a nap, right?”
That you could; they are thoroughly not of our world and yet they feel warm, inclusive, intimate, the sort of places we can rest and perhaps e-discover the transcendent loveliness of being somewhere utterly removed from our own, all-too-stark reality.
